@towntaker.bsky.social
Historian, educator, librarian. I collect fashion, borrow books, and lend attention.
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Librarian Josh Westbrook, “Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn’t let them read.”
Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart 2009.
Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart 2009.
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your average red state librarian has to present more evidence before buying a single Black history book than the Bluesky Safety Team has to present to randomly change the guidelines of the entire site
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
your average red state librarian has to present more evidence before buying a single Black history book than the Bluesky Safety Team has to present to randomly change the guidelines of the entire site
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The elite few people in this country who are actually in a position to stand up to Donald Trump are totally silent.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The elite few people in this country who are actually in a position to stand up to Donald Trump are totally silent.
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Emergency management IS NOT a security sector. It should never be, the fact fema was blended into DHS is a sign of the post 9/11 thinking and it should have been reversed the minute obama took office. The fact it remained there reflects the laziness and disregard of the sector politically.
I really hope I am wrong but I actually would be shocked if democrats eliminated DHS.
There still seems to be a meaningful portion of them who still don’t even want to take FEMA out of DHS.
There still seems to be a meaningful portion of them who still don’t even want to take FEMA out of DHS.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Emergency management IS NOT a security sector. It should never be, the fact fema was blended into DHS is a sign of the post 9/11 thinking and it should have been reversed the minute obama took office. The fact it remained there reflects the laziness and disregard of the sector politically.
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Every 20 years we find out somebody gave Clinton head like a comet coming back into our orbit.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Every 20 years we find out somebody gave Clinton head like a comet coming back into our orbit.
If the solution isn’t creating more millionaires but just raising their taxes, it has to be wrong
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If the solution isn’t creating more millionaires but just raising their taxes, it has to be wrong
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Prehistoric strange sharks and other weird water predators from the Carboniferous Period. Who is your favorite?
Art from my book: DINOSAURS, Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time link to get yours here: a.co/d/1LTweVz
#prehistoric #sharkweek #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart
Art from my book: DINOSAURS, Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time link to get yours here: a.co/d/1LTweVz
#prehistoric #sharkweek #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Prehistoric strange sharks and other weird water predators from the Carboniferous Period. Who is your favorite?
Art from my book: DINOSAURS, Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time link to get yours here: a.co/d/1LTweVz
#prehistoric #sharkweek #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart
Art from my book: DINOSAURS, Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time link to get yours here: a.co/d/1LTweVz
#prehistoric #sharkweek #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart
When do billionaires do a Denethor
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
When do billionaires do a Denethor
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If rapists are “stranger danger” then what is happening to you at home can’t be rape
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If rapists are “stranger danger” then what is happening to you at home can’t be rape
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Not a girl anymore but I distinctly remember my mom being upset AT ME when I was like. 14? Bc some old man was apparently gawking at my chest at the grocery store.
The great defining bond of having experienced girlhood is turning 11 and being actively punished by the entire adult world because a bunch of weird men want to fuck you
Theres actually an important convo to be had re: the difference between 5 & 15yo victims of predation, how society treats them, etc. but the ppl most eager to have that talk tend to be interested in the concept of “acceptability” & excusing predation rather than preventing it or helping anyone
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Not a girl anymore but I distinctly remember my mom being upset AT ME when I was like. 14? Bc some old man was apparently gawking at my chest at the grocery store.
Keiko and OBrien have zero chemistry. I can believe they are married but I can’t believe they have mutually enjoyable sex.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Keiko and OBrien have zero chemistry. I can believe they are married but I can’t believe they have mutually enjoyable sex.
TNG Lower Decks:
Wtf is Picard so mean to Sito when he’s going to ask her to carry a grenade later? BE NICER
Wtf is Picard so mean to Sito when he’s going to ask her to carry a grenade later? BE NICER
a man in a black shirt looks at the camera
Alt: Patrick Swayze in a black shirt looks at the camera and says BE NICE
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
TNG Lower Decks:
Wtf is Picard so mean to Sito when he’s going to ask her to carry a grenade later? BE NICER
Wtf is Picard so mean to Sito when he’s going to ask her to carry a grenade later? BE NICER
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The prosecutions that should have happened in the reconstruction plus the infrastructure builds that haven't been done since the New Deal.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The prosecutions that should have happened in the reconstruction plus the infrastructure builds that haven't been done since the New Deal.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
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"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
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If you see this post a bird
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you see this post a bird
It’s important to certain predators that there are always hordes of desperate people without homes or medical care or food.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s important to certain predators that there are always hordes of desperate people without homes or medical care or food.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
we need to return to sending useless rich boys on deadly expeditions
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
In order for grown adult women to treat adult predatory men with the required derision and disgust, we must be free of the desire for their approval, free of our need for their money/status/power.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In order for grown adult women to treat adult predatory men with the required derision and disgust, we must be free of the desire for their approval, free of our need for their money/status/power.
Still thinking about this image. What if every time there were rumors about a sex pest a crowd of women just stole from him and left him humiliated
Alas, alack! Depantsed man weeps in the distance as crowd of women fight over his trousers. More humor of the Dutch Golden Age by Adriaen van de Venne.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Still thinking about this image. What if every time there were rumors about a sex pest a crowd of women just stole from him and left him humiliated